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Mesa 7.11 Release Candidate 1 Arrives

07-09-2011, 09:20 AM

Phoronix: Mesa 7.11 Release Candidate 1 Arrives

While this is non-news for many Phoronix readers that are Mesa Git followers and already onto tracking Mesa 7.12-devel after using Mesa 7.11-devel for months already, for everyone else, the first release candidate of Mesa 7.11 is now available...

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Completely working power management and I'd switch to the open source stack in a heartbeat. Video acceleration would be the only thing I would really miss then, but my desktop's CPU is fast enough anyway (AMD Phenom II X4 940) and I don't watch HD videos on my notebook (AMD Fusion E-350).

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It will be great to see some optimizations for r300g, because even Open Arena is hardly playable.

There are indeed new r300g optimizations in 7.11. From the top of my head:
- faster vertex uploads (also on r600g)
- new optimized winsys that completely bypasses (doesn't use) libdrm_radeon
- new fragment shader register allocator

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There are indeed new r300g optimizations in 7.11. From the top of my head:
- faster vertex uploads (also on r600g)
- new optimized winsys that completely bypasses (doesn't use) libdrm_radeon
- new fragment shader register allocator

Thanks. I will check this out when 7.11 will get into Arch stable repo.